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Tomorrow’s Stealthy Subs Could Sink America’s Navy
www.thedailybeast.com ^ | 05/12/2014 | Bill Sweetman

Posted on 08/24/2014 3:04:51 PM PDT by WesternCulture

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1 posted on 08/24/2014 3:04:51 PM PDT by WesternCulture
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To: WesternCulture

Wanna feel your family is protected and safe while driving down the freeway?

- Buy a Volvo.

Wanna secure the survival of your country?

- Contact SAAB.

The Vikings - We know war!

http://www.saabgroup.com/


2 posted on 08/24/2014 3:05:28 PM PDT by WesternCulture
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To: WesternCulture
Shades of Red October.
3 posted on 08/24/2014 3:08:33 PM PDT by upchuck (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care.)
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To: WesternCulture

Local news station talks about this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khaa3y0i87s


4 posted on 08/24/2014 3:10:42 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: WesternCulture

” and an electronic mast that surfaces intermittently makes an even less obvious track than a direct-view periscope that has to stay up to function. “

Even back in the 70’s we did not leave the masts up. A ‘quick peek’ and then right back down.


5 posted on 08/24/2014 3:12:18 PM PDT by TexasGator
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They did the same thing in the old WWII submarine movies.


6 posted on 08/24/2014 3:14:39 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: upchuck

“Shades of Red October.”

- Viktor Tupolev was in fact Swedish (Stellan Skarsgård). Being Swedish, I feel proud that my nation managed to infiltrate the Soviet Navy in such a very successful manner:)


7 posted on 08/24/2014 3:16:42 PM PDT by WesternCulture
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‘Tomorrow’s Stealthy Subs Could Sink America’s Navy’

Of course they could. So could global cooling/warming if our subs ran into an ice berg.

This is such twaddle.

They think we’re idiots, those who write this tripe.


8 posted on 08/24/2014 3:18:43 PM PDT by x1stcav (Leftism is like rust. It corrodes twenty-four hous a day.)
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To: WesternCulture
And Frank diplomacy!
9 posted on 08/24/2014 3:21:42 PM PDT by null and void (If Bill Clinton was the first black president, why isn't Barack Obama the first woman president?)
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To: WesternCulture

Drone subs.


10 posted on 08/24/2014 3:22:55 PM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: WesternCulture
The best way to sink a sub is with another sub. And U.S. Navy learned a whole lot from the year or so they got to work with the Gotland. Link
11 posted on 08/24/2014 3:24:29 PM PDT by Lower Deck
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When the Muslims fully take over Sweden from the self-loathing Swedes, they’ll inherit some nice technology.


12 posted on 08/24/2014 3:27:12 PM PDT by Dagnabitt (Amnesty is Treason. Its agents are Traitors.)
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"When the Muslims fully take over Sweden from the self-loathing Swedes, they’ll inherit some nice technology."

And then burn it.

13 posted on 08/24/2014 3:28:00 PM PDT by Flag_This (You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
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To: WesternCulture

The exception is if the Volvo is in an accident that crushes the car to the extent that the occupants require extrication and the accident takes place in some rural area. A lot of volunteer fire departments don’t have the money to buy the latest rescue tools that can snap, not cut, the high strength boron steel to gain entry. If a fire gets to the magnesium support structure behind the dash there’s a good chance the trapped occupants will be barbequed in their five star safety rated car.


14 posted on 08/24/2014 3:42:24 PM PDT by meatloaf
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To: WesternCulture

Link is not a link.


15 posted on 08/24/2014 3:44:44 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Jack Hydrazine

“Local news station talks about this.”

- Seen it before, but thanks for posting the link anyhow, Fellow Freeper!

Sweden has stealth subs, stealth warships, produces advanced fighter planes of her own and could flood a nation like neighboring Russia with tanks after some modifications of its large automotive plants (talking about facilities like those of Volvo Truck Corporation and Scania Group rather than the major Volvo Cars plant in Gothenburg although the latter is one of the biggest industrial facilities in Northern Europe).

Yet, most Swedes feel our defence budget has been cut too much - and this is the prime reason we’ve decided to go ahead and develop the A26 submarine.

The billions it will cost us developing these subs won’t buy us eternal peace, but will give Putin some insomina problems.


16 posted on 08/24/2014 3:45:15 PM PDT by WesternCulture
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“If a fire gets to the magnesium support structure behind the dash there’s a good chance the trapped occupants will be barbequed in their five star safety rated car.”

- Never heard of this before, but in rich corners of the World like the US, Germany, Scandinavia etc. I’d guess fire departments have the right equipment for rescuing people involved in severe accidents.

In Somalia, Honduras and Laos exclusive Volvos are uncommon.

17 posted on 08/24/2014 3:55:47 PM PDT by WesternCulture
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To: Flag_This

They’ll sell it.


18 posted on 08/24/2014 4:05:57 PM PDT by huldah1776
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To: Lower Deck

Precisely, sir.


19 posted on 08/24/2014 4:07:19 PM PDT by Afterguard (Liberals will let you do anything you want, as long as it's mandatory.)
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If a fire gets to the magnesium support structure behind the dash there’s a good chance the trapped occupants will be barbequed in their five star safety rated car.

Since when is solid magnesium flammable?

20 posted on 08/24/2014 4:41:03 PM PDT by NY.SS-Bar9 (Those that vote for a living outnumber those that work for one.)
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